mod_rewrite snarfs image uploads and stylesheet(?) snarfs on Mozilla

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Calum Galleitch

28 Feb 2004 28 Feb '04

11:24 a.m.

(take two) Hi there, I've got Mediawiki 1.1.0 installed and running happily except for: 1) URL rewriting and image uploads. I've got the software installed in /w/, and articles are referenced by /wiki/Article_title. Now, when I upload an image, it arrives happily, sits in the upload directory, and disappears. The software trys to find /wiki/2/2d/image.jpg, but this gets automagically rewritten so that instead of pulling out the image, we get a blank article page called 2/2d/image.jpg. This sounds like it should be easily fixable, but I can't quite see how. The default stylesheet is quite badly confused on my default browser, Moz 1.2.1. Page breaks are thrown randomly across the screen and it's impossible to click anything on the top bar or in the article text. I assume it's a local problem, cos wikipedia itself is fine. Any clues? FWIW, it's fine with Konqueror. Any thoughts much appreciated :) Cheers, Calum

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Brion Vibber

28 Feb 28 Feb

12:15 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] mod_rewrite snarfs image uploads and stylesheet(?) snarfs on Mozilla

On Feb 28, 2004, at 02:24, Calum Galleitch wrote:

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1) URL rewriting and image uploads. I've got the software installed in /w/, and articles are referenced by /wiki/Article_title. Now, when I upload an image, it arrives happily, sits in the upload directory, and disappears. The software trys to find /wiki/2/2d/image.jpg, but this gets automagically rewritten so that instead of pulling out the image, we get a blank article page called 2/2d/image.jpg. This sounds like it should be easily fixable, but I can't quite see how.

You have to set $wgUploadPath correctly. This might be /w/upload, or wherever you're actually putting the files. If you've got a /wiki directory, it's now hidden by the rewrite and nothing can be reached there.

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The default stylesheet is quite badly confused on my default browser, Moz 1.2.1. Page breaks are thrown randomly across the screen and it's impossible to click anything on the top bar or in the article text. I assume it's a local problem, cos wikipedia itself is fine. Any clues? FWIW, it's fine with Konqueror.

You have to set $wgStyleSheetPath to the actual location, as with the upload directory. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

Calum Galleitch

1:08 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] mod_rewrite snarfs image uploads and stylesheet(?) snarfs on Mozilla

On Saturday 28 February 2004 11:15, Brion Vibber wrote:

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I see, thank you. Would it be possible to move some of the code around so it happens automatically, so that things like $wgStyleSheetPath and so on are dependent on the LocalSettings.php $wgScriptPath rather than ending up as whatever was in DefaultSettings.php? Or is there a good reason it isn't done this way? Cheers, Calum

Calum Galleitch

9:07 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Mediwiki namespace edits have no effect

Yes, it's me again (groan). I think these are the last of my problems: 1) I know I'm being lazy asking this here, but what the heck. How do you disable scripting by directories? Can't see anything obvious in apache.conf, and trying to read Debian's documentation by ssh is painful. 2) How do you persuade the Mediwiki namespace items to have some effect on the site at large? I've given myself sysop status, and I can edit and save them, but they don't show up on the site at large. Am I missing something? Many thanks, Calum

Chris Croome

11:41 p.m.

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Hi On Sat 28-Feb-2004 at 08:07:06PM +0000, Calum Galleitch wrote:

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Perhaps this in LocalSettings.php: $wgUseDatabaseMessages = true; Chris -- Chris Croome <chris(a)webarchitects.co.uk> web design http://www.webarchitects.co.uk/ web content management http://mkdoc.com/

Brion Vibber

29 Feb 29 Feb

1:19 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] mod_rewrite snarfs image uploads and stylesheet(?) snarfs on Mozilla

On Feb 28, 2004, at 04:08, Calum Galleitch wrote:

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On Saturday 28 February 2004 11:15, Brion Vibber wrote:

The old sample LocalSettings file was really really bad and misleading. See the LocalSettings.sample in the 1.2.0rc1 release, it includes the necessary bits to do this right. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

Brion Vibber

1:24 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Mediwiki namespace edits have no effect

On Feb 28, 2004, at 12:07, Calum Galleitch wrote:

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1) I know I'm being lazy asking this here, but what the heck. How do you disable scripting by directories? Can't see anything obvious in apache.conf, and trying to read Debian's documentation by ssh is painful.

You might try something like this: <Directory /var/www/wiki/upload> php_admin_flag engine off AddType text/plain .html .htm .shtml </Directory> This will turn off PHP script execution and keep HTML from being served as HTML, to keep embedded JavaScript from attacking and perhaps getting at session cookies. (Adjust to your preferences.)

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2) How do you persuade the Mediwiki namespace items to have some effect on the site at large? I've given myself sysop status, and I can edit and save them, but they don't show up on the site at large. Am I missing something?

Set: $wgDatabaseMessages = true; This is on by default in 1.2.0, but not in 1.1.0. There's a bit of a performance hit and we haven't optimized it fully yet for the general installation case. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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